Spring at last

Here in the north spring is finally visible. We were in Amsterdam this weekend, experience city life and strengthen contacts, where the crocuses are in full bloom everywhere. This morning I saw in Warten the first tentative flowers along the ditch, it is clearly colder than in town. Fortunately, all the ditches are again of water and not ice and the fields are green and not wit.
It's also high time to shave Panache's winter coat tough all those curls he has now look very cute.
We work hard, also to be prepared for any guests, and will shortly sail away for a few days if the weather remains good.
When we are not connected to shore power we need to start the generator to do jobs with electricity, so we try to do the sawing and sanding as much as possible in the harbour.
Today arrives the new winch for the aftspudpole so we can use it again. As we wanted to leave our winter place for the box in the harbour we could not lift the spudpole and than you can not go far! The winch was wrong and had to be replaced. The spud pole was hoisted up with a manual hoist and secured (we absolutely need to have one of those on board, so much is clear) so we could move.
When we tour around, we still like to have two spudpoles as it increases our possibilities for a nice place to more.